Deck 12: U.S.women in a global age

Question 1

Who was the first woman to seriously challenge the political glass ceiling in her attempt to win her party's presidential nomination?

A) Geraldine Ferraro
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Sarah Palin
D) Nancy Pelosi

Answer 1

Hillary Clinton

Question 2

The number of women entering the workforce in the last third of the twentieth century rose in the context of the

A) gradual equalizing of American family incomes.
B) increasing disparity between rich and poor.
C) ability of single-income families to thrive if that income was the man's.
D) rising incomes of African American and Hispanic families.

Answer 2

increasing disparity between rich and poor.

Question 3

Whose rights did the anti-abortion activists build their campaign around?

A) The parents of pregnant teenage girls
B) The unmarried pregnant woman
C) The husband of the pregnant woman
D) The unborn child or fetus

Answer 3

The unborn child or fetus

Question 4

What has been the policy toward women of the radical Islamic group known as ISIS?

A) To undo the damage done to Islamic women as a result of the U.S. presence in Iraq
B) To largely ignore women and leave them alone
C) To encourage women in their fight for equal rights
D) To encourage the rape, kidnapping, and murder of women considered infidels

Question 5

What significant changes took place to childbearing and childrearing in the late twentieth century?

A) Middle-class women increased the number of children they were having.
B) The ratio of women in their mid-forties who were childless declined.
C) The number of unmarried teenage mothers was increasing.
D) More women were likely to have children without marrying.

Question 6

What was the single way in which President George W.Bush's policies allied themselves with a feminist ideology?

A) Bush's opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion
B) His willingness to fund family planning through United Nations channels
C) Bush's endorsement of his daughter for state office in Texas
D) His appointments of women to high-ranking positions within his administration

Question 7

How did the new immigrants of the late twentieth century differ from those in the late nineteenth century?

A) Most came from the formerly communist Eastern European countries.
B) Women made up the majority of illegal immigrants flooding the borders.
C) Half of them came from Latin America.
D) Fewer Asians immigrated due to the boom in the Asian economy.

Question 8

How did observers respond to the report that 30 percent of all female-headed homes live below the poverty level?

A) Conservatives called on churches and relief agencies to create more day care centers.
B) Liberals called for higher wages for women and better access to social services.
C) Feminists mounted a campaign to revive marriage to give women access to men's wages.
D) Sociologists denied that the data supported the "feminization of poverty."

Question 9

Which of the following is an accurate explanation for the continued disparity between men's and women's incomes?

A) The vast majority of women continue to work in female-dominated occupations.
B) Women prefer to stay home and raise the children.
C) Women continue to be reluctant to join unions.
D) Men outnumber women in higher education.

Question 10

What was Sarah Palin's appeal to voters as John McCain's running mate?

A) Palin's long political record as governor of Alaska
B) Palin's diplomatic experience and strong grasp of foreign policy
C) Her "soccer mom" image and support for so-called traditional family values
D) Her experience serving in previous Republican presidential administrations

Question 11

What did Susan Faludi's 1991 best-selling book,Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women,examine?

A) Numerous claims that feminism had diminished women's quality of life
B) The differences between women who had sought abortions and those who had carried their pregnancies to term
C) The educational levels of women who rejected feminism
D) The economic difficulties of working-class women

Question 12

Emily's List provided seed money for the election of

A) Republican female candidates.
B) pro-choice candidates.
C) African American women candidates.
D) lesbian and gay candidates.

Question 13

The question that often arose during the Democratic presidential primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was whether Americans

A) were ready to elect a woman to the presidency.
B) thought Barack Obama was too young for the presidency.
C) found Hillary Clinton too conservative for the times.
D) would ever elect a presidential candidate who had not served as a governor.

Question 14

What movement was Phyllis Schlafly instrumental in launching?

A) The anti-immigrant movement
B) New Right antifeminism
C) The Congressional Committee on Women's Issues
D) The New Left pro-abortion movement

Question 15

What is one explanation for the steep decline in the marriage rate in the late twentieth century?

A) The high tax rate on middle-class married couples
B) A relatively low number of single men compared to single women
C) The increasing ability of women to support themselves economically
D) The reduction in mixed-faith marriages

Question 16

What have been the effects of the Iraq war on the lives of Iraqi women?

A)They have been liberated from patriarchal restrictions mandated by religious practice.
B)U.S. involvement created hopes for an end to repression that had by 2008 been unrealized.
C)The secularization of Iraqi society removed from power the most conservative religious sects.
D)Sexual and physical violence against women has been greatly reduced.

Question 17

What happened to women's roles in American unions when union membership dropped during the 1990s?

A) Women's participation also fell, with even fewer women willingly joining unions.
B) Women became more prominent as service and public sector unions formed.
C) Women's participation made almost no difference to unions.
D) Women's roles hardly changed.

Question 18

What does Zoe Baird's withdrawal from consideration for the position of attorney general in 1993 illustrate?

A) The problems professional women face in securing reliable child care
B) The temptations of poor women to seek revenge on the wealthy families that hire them
C) The lingering double standard despite women's advances in the workplace
D) Women's unwillingness to use their professional educations to serve the wider public

Question 19

Sandra Day O'Connor was significant because she was the first woman

A) Speaker of the House.
B) major party candidate for vice president.
C) appointed to the Supreme Court.
D) to serve as secretary of state.

Question 20

What is one theory of why feminism underwent a reneweal in the 1990s?

A) Older feminists returned to the movement after their children went to school.
B) The conservative political climate inspired young women to fight for their rights.
C) Feminists were inspired to build on the victory of Roe v. Wade.
D) Passage of the ERA encouraged feminists to fight for new rights.

Question 21

How did anti-immigration sentiment affect immigrant women and children?

A) It led to stricter immigration laws that denied single mothers the right to enter the country.
B) It instigated a court ruling that upheld California's right to deny immigrant children access to public schools.
C) It triggered a federal law that denied legal immigrants access to federal welfare programs for five years.
D) It led to several state laws that denied citizenship to American-born children of illegal immigrants.

Question 22

One major change to American families in the late twentieth century was a(n)

A) decrease in the divorce rate.
B) drop in the number of women who never married.
C) increase in the number of women committed to lifelong marriage.
D) increasing acceptability of lesbianism and gay families.

Question 23

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act changed single mothers' lives by

A) limiting to five years the time that poor women could receive welfare.
B) offering subsidies to single, poor women to help pay for child care.
C) stating that small businesses did not need to offer benefits to their hourly workers.
D) helping raise many single working women out of poverty.

Question 24

Beyond union organizing and participation,twenty-first-century working women have also

A) taken advantage of new opportunities that afford them equal pay in all job sectors.
B) increasingly left the job market to pursue unpaid opportunities.
C) been part of numerous class action suits to demonstrate a pattern of job segregation.
D) rejected affirmative action because it is inherently discriminatory.

Question 25

Since its ruling in Roe v.Wade,the Supreme Court has

A) consistently upheld a woman's right to choose without equivocation.
B) ruled in favor of state laws limiting access to abortion but has not overturned Roe v. Wade.
C) ruled against access to abortion in a way that has effectively overturned Roe v. Wade.
D) refused to hear any court cases concerning abortion since its ruling in Roe v. Wade.

Question 26

When considering single motherhood,second-wave feminism failed most significantly in the movement

A) for publicly funded child care.
B) to establish equal pay for equal work.
C) to end Aid for Families with Dependent Children.
D) to provide health benefits for single mothers.

Question 27

What was one effective tool used by the anti-abortionists to cut down the number of abortions in the United States?

A) Pamphlets left in public places like hospital parking lots and outside supermarkets
B) Visits to public high schools to give talks on the consequences of early sexual activity
C) Demonstrations and violence against abortion clinics and medical providers
D) Passage of a constitutional amendment banning abortion

Question 28

How did Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas on national television in 1991 affect American society?

A) Future presidents were hesitant to appoint African Americans to high office.
B) There was a backlash against women who lodged sexual harassment complaints.
C) Many more women reported sexual harassment on the job.
D) Women's power and assertiveness in electoral politics diminished.

Question 29

What was the dominant trend for women entering the professions between 1966 and 2014?

A) Equalization in the percentage of men and women awarded medical and law degrees
B) Professional schools' continued reluctance to admit women on an equal basis
C) Harassment of women students by men students
D) Fewer gains for women than in the corporate world

Question 30

In the 2015 decision in Obergefell v.Hodges,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that

A) states have the right to restrict marriage to one man and one woman.
B) the Court has no role in the same-sex marriage debate.
C) no state could deny a same-sex couple the right to marry.
D) while same-sex marriage is legal under the Constitution, federal benefits would not extend to same-sex couples.

Question 31

Which of the following most closely reflects marriage patterns in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?

A) Divorce rates have dropped, and intact two-parent families are the norm.
B) Women marry at a younger age than they did in the 1970s and 1980s.
C) The marriage rate has risen since the turn of the twenty-first century.
D) Only one in five American households includes a married couple with children.

Question 32

What was President Obama's record on support of women in government?

A) He only appointed one woman, Hillary Clinton, to a cabinet position.
B) He appointed a significant number of women to high-level positions, including his cabinet and the Supreme Court.
C) He appointed a few women to high positions in his administration but never named a woman to his cabinet.
D) He often overlooked talented women, such as Condoleezza Rice, for male party leaders such as Joe Biden.

Question 33

Ecofeminism contends that

A) the subjugation of women and the subjugation of nature are connected.
B) women's natural role is to procreate.
C) women alone can solve the planet's ecological problems.
D) the earth's resources are equitably distributed.

Question 34

Why was Phyllis Schlafly's ideology an effective weapon against feminist politics?

A) She was able to point to the contradictions between what the feminist leaders preached and how they lived their lives.
B) Her projections of women suffering the loss of men's economic support bothered many men and women.
C) She presented an ideal model of a woman who had chosen to stay home with her children rather than pursue a high-powered career.
D) She was funded by department stores and supermarket chains that worried that feminist gains would hurt their profits.

Question 35

What two groups came together in a new movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s to contest the gains of feminism and oppose the ERA?

A) The Republican Party and conservative Christians
B) The organized labor movement and the Old Right
C) Stay-at-home wealthy women and poor immigrant women
D) Aspiring female politicians and young Republicans

Question 36

What was one response to the success of affirmative action programs in giving women and people of color access to education and employment?

A) Women quickly outnumbered men in admission to traditionally male fields, such as engineering.
B) The Supreme Court heard cases that led to rulings strongly supporting the continuation of affirmative action.
C) Opponents labeled affirmative action "reverse discrimination" and began to dismantle the system.
D) White women and people of color renewed a century of mutual resentment and jealousy.

Question 37

Which of the following was NOT a historic "first" for the election of 2008?

A) It was the first time a woman was a serious contender for a major party's presidential candidacy.
B) It was the first time that a woman was on the presidential ticket of a major party.
C) It was the first time that an African American was elected president.
D) It was the first time that no significant issues divided the two major parties.

Question 38

What role does organized labor play for women workers today?

A) While labor unions have declined in recent years, women's representation in organized labor has risen.
B) Organized labor has helped increase hostility between American-born members and new immigrants.
C) Organized labor has helped spur employer inflexibility and a hostile political climate.
D) Organized labor has shunned working-class and immigrant women in its goals and membership.

Question 39

Following the Monica Lewinsky affair,many feminists

A) called for the immediate impeachment of Clinton.
B) refused to support Clinton's reelection campaign.
C) accused Lewinsky of fabricating the story.
D) stood by Clinton because of his past support of feminist causes.

Question 40

Nancy Pelosi was the first

A) woman to try to become president.
B) Republican woman vice presidential nominee.
C) black woman elected to the Senate.
D) female Speaker of the House.